Tool 22 · the lab · Read: Ch. 14 — Screening · Ch. 19 — Data room

Pitch deck data extractor & quick-score

Built for the cohort's weekly cadence: source one deal, review it across the four verticals (B2B / Consumer / Deep Tech / Impact), and hand off a clean structured record to the IC memo, deal scorecard, and valuation comparator. Stage benchmarks light up where the deck is thin.

Module 1

Company & round

Company

Founded

Stage

Vertical

Instrument

Round size ($)

Pre-money / cap ($)

Lead investor

Module 2

Problem · solution · market

Problem (one sentence)

Solution & wedge

TAM ($M)

SAM ($M)

SOM 5yr ($M)

How was TAM built? (top-down vs. bottom-up)

Module 3

Traction & unit economics

ARR / revenue ($)

MoM growth (%)

Gross margin (%)

Net revenue retention (%)

Logo churn (% / yr)

CAC ($)

LTV ($)

Payback (months)

Notable customers / design partners

Module 4

Team & financials

Founders & domain edge

Prior outcomes

Burn ($/mo)

Cash on hand ($)

Runway (months — auto)

Use of proceeds (one line)

Module 5

Vertical Q&A · four-vertical model

Pick the vertical above; the four prompt sets below are what each cohort vertical (B2B / Consumer / Deep Tech / Impact) is asked to answer in async deal review. Fill the relevant set; the others stay blank. The export flags any blank lingering questions to chase in follow-up outreach.

B2B / SaaS

Who is the buyer, what budget does this come out of, and what is the contractual stickiness?

Buyer persona & budget owner

Sales motion (PLG / inside / enterprise)

Contract length, NRR mechanism

Why now in this category?

Consumer

What is the organic pull, the unit economics at scale, and the path off paid acquisition?

Organic vs. paid mix & trend

Repeat / retention curve (D30 / D90)

AOV, frequency, cohort LTV

Brand thesis & defensibility

Deep Tech

What is the technical risk, the IP moat, and the capital required to first revenue?

Technical risk & current TRL

IP & defensibility

Capital to first $1M revenue

Regulatory / dual-use path

Impact

What is the measurable outcome, who pays for it, and is the impact additional or substitutional?

Outcome metric & measurement

Who pays (consumer / corp / gov / blended)?

Additionality vs. baseline

Impact-vs-return trade-off

Module 6

Risks & lingering questions

Top 3 risks

Lingering questions for follow-up

Result

Stage benchmarks & quick-score

Quick-score

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Hand off → Tool 08

IC memo builder

Auto-fills the seven-block IC memo from this record. Click to open and paste.

Hand off → Tool 17

Deal scorecard

Carries forward the 16-criterion weighted evaluation seeded by these inputs.

Hand off → Tool 14

Valuation comparator

Pre-fills VC method, DCF anchors, and Berkus seeds from the round terms above.

Structured record (Markdown)

Click "Extract & score" above.